Quiz time: can you name the four current Premier League teams who have won the Football League Trophy?

While you are thinking about the other three, it is worth pointing out that Stoke City are the ones who, similar to Brazil with the Jules Rimet Trophy in 1970, were allowed to keep their prize when they won it for a second time.

That’s right, there are two Auto Windscreens Shields in the bet365 Stadium trophy cabinet; a miniature replica like all winners received and the real thing which Nicky Mohan lifted at the old Wembley Stadium in 2000.

For what it’s worth, the Jules Rimet Trophy - yes, the World Cup - is actually sitting next to it … but that’s a story for another day.

Captain Nicky Mohan holds up the Auto Windscreens Shield at Wembley for Stoke City in 2000. (Image: The Sentinel)

It had been the Autoglass Trophy when Lou Macari’s side beat Stockport County on a gloriously sunny day in 1992, with Mark Stein volleying in the only goal to ease the heartache from a play-off semi-final defeat to the same team the previous week. Stoke went and won promotion and the Division Two championship the following season.

Mark Stein scores to set up a 1-0 win for Stoke City at Wembley Stadium against Stockport County in the 1992 Autoglass Trophy final. (Image: Paul Bradbury)

But the Potters were back in the third tier by 1998 and that meant re-entering this tournament. Glory wasn’t immediate. A match at Rochdale was postponed FOUR times before being switched to the Potteries – when Brian Little’s team lost.

Rochdale supporters are frustrated after their game with Stoke City is postponed, despite the ground being covered. (Image: The Sentinel)

Brian Little shows his anguish as his Stoke City side lose at home to Rochdale. (Image: Dave Trundle/The Sentinel)

By the first round the following season Little had gone and so had his popular replacement Gary Megson, replaced by Gudjon Thordarson on the wave of an Icelandic takeover and new optimism.

Kyle Lightbourne made a little piece of history when he came off the bench to score Stoke’s first ever golden goal winner, in extra-time against Darlington. It was a golden goal winner from James O’Connor which sealed progress in the next round at Oldham, but only after floodlight failure had seen the first attempt to play the tie – Brynjar Gunnarsson’s debut – abandoned after 56 minutes.

Gunnarsson scored his first Stoke goal in the next round, a 2-1 win at Blackpool, to set up a Northern Area semi-final against Chesterfield, who were bottom of the third tier. It was a horrible rain-sodden Derbyshire night when O’Connor again came to the fore with a deserved late winner.

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Stoke eventually got to play at Rochdale in the two-legged Northern final and it was pretty much over within 27 minutes. Mikael Hansson and Peter Thorne, twice, had scored past Neil Edwards, Stockport’s keeper from eight years previously.

Scorers Peter Thorne and Graham Kavanagh with the trophy as Stoke City beat Bristol City in the 2000 Auto Windscreen final at Wembley Stadium. (Image: The Sentinel)

A final against Bristol City was dedicated to Sir Stanley Matthews, who had died that November, and Kavanagh and Thorne sealed a 2-1 win in front of a 75,057 crowd.

"I shall not forget the way they backed us in the wind and rain at Chesterfield,” said Thordarson. “They earned a big day out at Wembley.”

James O'Connor celebrates a vital goal for Stoke City at Chesterfield. (Image: The Sentinel)